•HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
•HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages
•HTML describes the structure of a Web page
•HTML consists of a series of elements
•HTML elements tell the browser how to display the content
•HTML elements label pieces of content such as "this is a heading", "this is a paragraph",
"this is a link", etc.
<html> the HTML document itself begins with!<html>!and ends with!</html>.
<!DOCTYPE html> All HTML documents must start with a document type declaration
<meta> The!<meta>!tag defines metadata about an HTML document. Metadata is data
(information) about data.
<meta>!tags always go inside the <head> element, and are typically used to specify character set,
page description, keywords, author of the document, and viewport settings.
<head> The!<head>!element is a container for metadata (data about data) and is placed between
the <html> tag and the <body> tag.
Metadata is data about the HTML document. Metadata is not displayed.
Metadata typically define the document title, character set, styles, scripts, and other meta
information.
The following elements can go inside the!<head>!element:
•<title>!(required in every HTML document)
•<style>
•<base>
•<link>
•<meta>
•<script>
•<noscript>
<body> The visible part of the HTML document is between!<body>!and!</body>.
<header> The!<header>!element represents a container for introductory content or a set of
navigational links.
A!<header>!element typically contains:
•one or more heading elements (<h1> - <h6>)
•logo or icon
•authorship information
<div> The!<div>!tag defines a division or a section in an HTML document.
The!<div>!tag is used as a container for HTML elements - which is then styled with CSS or
manipulated with JavaScript.
